Jul 5, 2014
Creative Canvas: In Conversation With Meena Kayastha
Dear readers,
Sculpture is one art form that I have been fascinated with. The idea of creating a concrete artwork out of something very ordinary material and have the ability to relay a story is magnificent. Its like having a spectacular ability to vision and to bring this vision to world is amazing. Truthfully, I'm ignorant when it comes to the world of sculpture. This is why today I am in conversation with a woman who is well known and well established in Nepal. Meena Kayastha shares her experiences and thoughts from the sculpting world.
1. How
did you get into this line of work? What motivated you to get involved in it?
First let me take you to my family
background. My father Raj kumar Manandhar, he is an ethnical musician and my
husband kishor kayastha, a fine art photographer. These people in my life
motivate me, inspire me and widen my vision to the world of art. Beside..
Nepal, a homeland of various forms of art and culture weaved in daily lives of
people surrounded by religion and culture. Every step, every corner through the
old cities, all forms of arts follows you and inspires you. So amalgam
of socio-culture society sunken me and motivate for further creative
endeavour.
Sculpting and makeup both are synonym. I
would define "makeup" as another medium of sculpting. So for me both
of them are inseparable. Make-up is not just only about enhancing beauty
moreover it’s a joy of playing with colors and sculpting it toward a
perfect structure. So time isn't an issue for me.
As I work in junk materials, exploring the
junkyard and the materials is the most joyful and nicest thing. As I regularly
visit the junkyard people there (kawadikhana ko mancheraru) recognise me
and they are familiar about my choice of materials I pick so its most
appreciating that non-art related people also become aware of art.
There are no particular people. I believe in
inspiration not influences. So I work on my own and share ideas with different
genre of people.
Whenever I visit junkyard I get enthralled by
its twisted forms and rusted effects. Generally I collect random stuff from
junkyard and play with objects to give a meaningful form so that’s a WOW moment
when I create an artistic form from disposed, useless objects.
Right now I don't have particular
image/personality on my mind. So far this is my learning period and there is
yet many things to learn and discover. Being myself and focus on the style I
work is my preference at this moment.
Being a women sculpture sometime it’s
difficult to deal physically. In sculpting strong physic is required like
hammering, wielding and many others things to get things done. So sometime this masculine part of the work can get quite challenging.
Now-a days people are much aware of artistic visionary than before. So it’s a good going towards the
development of imagination, creation and visual interpretation. But
monetary wise we are still behind. People in Nepal so far I know
they don't invest much on sculpture rather than painting. It’s still hard
to sell sculpture.
8 Stylish Comments:
Antee,
These are very different sculpture pieces. How wonderful that you get to interview interesting people all the time.
Have a fun weekend.
love,
~Sheri
Stunning! Love it <3
Happy Weekend :)
Amazing sculpture pieces!!!!
Happy WE darling!!!
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Good stuff Antee!
Really great!
xx
Sarah
thank you all for stopping by
Xoxo
wow stupendous collections
i would love to have them all when I make my dream home
wow... very interesting tip. nice to meet you!
Un abbraccio,
Eva e Valentina The AnarCHIC
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